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This open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and researchers, with insight into the functioning of marine ecosystems. A carbon centric approach has been adopted, but other…

This text is designed for a one-semester course at the sophomore to senior level. Some students will have already taken
a college-level biology course with coverage of organismal diversity, and they will benefit greatly. A small number may
even…

Marine biology is the scientific study of animal and plant life in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water.
Marine biology covers a large array of organism, from microscopic, including most Zooplankton and Phytoplankton to the huge…

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Marine Biologically Active Compounds as Feed Additives that was published in JMSE

Ocean coves approximately 70 % of the earth's suface, or 360 million km2. It is estimated to have around 97% of water volume on the earth. It's average depth is about 3,800 m, and 55 % of the planet surface or approximately 77 % of the ocean is deep…

Marine Biodiversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) identifies the major issues at stake in the BBNJ negotiations and examines the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.…

The Special Issue “Marine Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidants Agents 2021” collected the latest research, both in vitro and in vivo, on natural compounds from a variety of deep-sea organisms with anti-inflammatory and/or antioxidant properties as…

This book describes how man-made litter, primarily plastic, has spread into the remotest parts of the oceans and covers all aspects of this pollution problem from the impacts on wildlife and human health to socio-economic and political issues. Marine…

Sea and marine biodiversity exploration represents a new frontier for the discovery of new natural products with human health benefits (“the exploitable biology”). New compounds suitable for nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, or pharmaceuticals require…

Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to…